To its opponents and critics, the Airbus A400M is a scandalous waste of money. Long delayed and over-budget, the programme is, they insist, a poorly concealedrnpiece of government job creation for Europe'srnbeleaguered aerospace industry and therncustomers would, they claim, have been betterrnoff purchasing Lockheed Martin C-130Js andrnBoeing C-17s.
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